Name Your Favourite Top 30 Top 40 or Top 50 Films All Genres

The Saloon
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I’m working on my Top 100, but my Top 50 is ready.

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My mistake!I have already a top40.I’ll give one of those days a top50.

More serious with particular order and infos.

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My list.

Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
Get carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
Blade Runner ( Ridley Scott, 1982)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Bob le Flambeur (jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
2001: A space odysse (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Good, the bad and the ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
High crime(Enzo Castellari, 1973)
Revolver (Sergio Sollima, 1973)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The third man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1965)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Aliens (David Cameron, 1986)
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
Mad Max: The road warrior (George Miller, 1981)
Hands of steel (Sergio Martino, 1986)
The Warriors (Walther Hill, 1979)
For a few dollars more (Sergio Leone, 1965)
A fist full of dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The great silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Conan the barbarian (John Milius, 1982)
Aguirre, der zorn gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)
All the colors of the dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)
Duel (Stephen Spielberg, 1971)
Jaws (Stephan Spielberg, 1975)
Twin Peaks the complete series (David Lynch, 1990-1992)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
The outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)
The Sweeney TV-Series (Ian Kennedy Martin, 1975-1978)
The Professionals TV-series (Brian Clemens, 1977-1983)
Bullet in the head (John Woo, 1990)
A better tomorrow (John Woo, 1986)
The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The seven samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurasawa, 1975)
Blade of the ripper (Sergio Martino, 1971)
Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
The Wild bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)

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The Sweeney was a series I really liked. But that was in the late 70s. Would be fun to see how it looks today.

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And of course the two original Sweeney films.

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A very good list Dorado but I don’t see a movie includes the guy in your avatar ;).

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Spot of Chuck is good for the soul :smiley:

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OK, mine looks like this at the moment.

  1. Le Samourai, Jean Pierre Melville (1967)
  2. The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni (1975)
  3. Army of Shadows, Jean Pierre Melville (1969)
  4. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
  5. Cinema Paradiso, Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)
  6. Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
  7. Seppuku, Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
  8. Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone (1968)
  9. Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
  10. Paths Of Glory, Stanley Kubrick (1957)
  11. Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
  12. The Battle Of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo (1966)
  13. Hiroshima, mon amour, Alain Resnais (1959)
  14. Le cercle rouge, Jean Pierre Melville (1970)
  15. Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick (1975)
  16. Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch (1995)
  17. The Sacrifice, Andrei Tarkovsky (1986)
  18. Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
  19. Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa (1954)
  20. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone (1966)
  21. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri (1970)
  22. Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog (1982)
  23. Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
  24. Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
  25. Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman (1972)
  26. The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
  27. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick (1964)
  28. The Third Man, Carol Reed (1949)
  29. Kes, Ken Loach (1969)
  30. The Eclipse, Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
  31. La Strada, Frederico Fellini (1954)
  32. The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino (1978)
  33. The Phantom of Liberty, Luis Buñuel (1974)
  34. The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick (1998)
  35. Amarcord, Frederico Fellini (1973)
  36. Three Colors: Blue, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1993)
  37. Diabolique, Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
  38. Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
  39. 12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet (1957)
  40. The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman (1957)
  41. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott (1982)
  42. Simon of the Desert, Luis Buñuel (1965)
  43. Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
  44. Il grido, Michelangelo Antonioni (1957)
  45. Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica (1948)
  46. Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (1994)
  47. The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara (1966)
  48. Drunken Angel, Akira Kurosawa (1948)
  49. Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)
  50. Il bidone, Frederico Fellini (1955)
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Interresting list Mickey13.
10 movies on your list is also on my list and If we where to make a top 100 instead of a top 50 somewhere between 12-18 other films from your list would also be in my top 100.

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Nice list Mickey! A true cinemaphile. Owning all 50 films would cost a fortune I reckon, I see alot of Criterion titles.

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Thanks guys, I always try to include all my favorites which I consider to be the most ambitious, beautiful and entertaining. Of course some movies such as Come and See is difficult to find entertaining - it’s almost a horror movie, extremely disturbing, but one of the flicks which can be considered to be an experience.

Yeah, Criterion is great. It’s a pity these DVDs have only Region Code 1 since their releases are truly impressive. Well, Eureka releases are as good as Criterion, but Eureka hasn’t put out so many titles.

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Nice list there Mickey; lots of World Cinema titles there. However, I must protest as to why there are no Orson Welles films >:( :wink: , in fact I find it quite interesting there are no titles before 1954 (Seven Samurai) - is the 1897 - 1953 era one you haven’t explored as indepth as post '53, including of course, the great, noble Silent period?

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Eh, John… :smiley: I haven’t seen that many movies… :wink: I’ve watched only Citizen Kane and The Trial by Welles and I loved both, but these aren’t the movies which I consider to be my all-time favorites.

Of course, I’ve seen some flicks from the silent era such as: M, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Nosferatu. Nosferatu was good, but I prefer the version directed by Herzog. M is absolutely great, I adore it, but again - not that superb. Frankly speaking, I didn’t like Metropolis too much. Too moralistic and the main character is totally shallow - it feels more like a fairy tale… overall not my type of flick.

But you overlooked The Third Man on my list which was absolutely stunning - a truly magic cinema - probably the best utilise of lighting ever! I LOVE IT! :wink:

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Of course, how did I miss The Third Man? True movie magic; I can still remember the first time I saw it: on holiday in Ireland, my mother allowing me to watch it on the TV at 7:50 A.M.!

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Overall, I tend not to be just like everybody and add films which are on every list of the best movies of all time and name flicks like Space Odyssey by Kubrick, Citizen Kane by Welles, Tokyo Story by Ozu and so on. I love cinema - this my greatest passion. On the other hand, I hate all those people who pretend to appreciate a flick only because it is considered to be so great, profound and who knows what else. These snobs drive me insane - they seem to be omnipresent.

I haven’t seen multiple examples of German expressionistic cinema which appears to be very important, flicks by Robert Besson, Alain Resnais (I’ve only viewed Hiroshima, mon amour which is phenomenal). I’m also willing to watch French impressionistic cinema which looks really good. A lot of films to watch… don’t expect too much from a 18-year-old brat like me ::). I’m doing my best anyway. :wink:

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Okay: This took bloody ages to compile. It’s certainly how I feel right now, staring at it. BUT, if I were to do the same exercise next week from scratch, the list would likely look very different. There are films that didn’t make the fifty, that frankly I’m staggered didn’t make the top 20. I suppose the difference between my favourite movie and, say, my hundredth favourite movie is way narrower than I thought it would be. Like, the width of a cigarette paper. I guess I just love my films.

For what it’s worth:

  1. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)

  2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

  3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

  4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)

  5. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

  6. Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

  7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)

  8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)

  9. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)

  10. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)

  11. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)

  12. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

  13. Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)

  14. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)

  15. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)

  16. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)

  17. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)

  18. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)

  19. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)

  20. Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973)

  21. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

  22. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)

  23. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

  24. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller, 2005)

  25. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

  26. Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)

  27. The Proposition (John Hillcoat, 2005)

  28. [REC] (Jaume Balagueró/Paco Plaza, 2007)

  29. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)

  30. Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)

  31. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

  32. A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)

  33. The Matrix (Andy Wachowski/Lana Wachowski, 1999)

  34. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

  35. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

  36. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)

  37. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)

  38. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)

  39. True Grit (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2010)

  40. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)

  41. The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977)

  42. Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)

  43. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)

  44. The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1966)

  45. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007)

  46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)

  47. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003)

  48. Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996)

  49. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)

  50. Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)

Hm, I would’ve sworn up and down that 2001: A Space Odyssey was one of my favourite twenty movies. Didn’t even make the fifty. Same with Vertigo, Amores Perros, Pi, The Exorcist, a fat bunch of others… I’ve got about eighty movies in my top 20, I reckon. ;D

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That list has reminded me…I must do my shopping list for tomorrow.

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Excellent! It’s always warming to find that one’s efforts weren’t a complete waste of time.

I wonder if I could compile a movie list that doubled as a shopping list? Ratatouille, Big Fish, Coffee & Cigarettes…?

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Yes, could be an interesting list :slight_smile:

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After a long time I have a favourite Top 50.After the first 5 with no particular order.

Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo-1988)
Predator (John McTiernan-1987)
Scarface (Brian De Palma-1983)
Casino (Martin Scorsese-1995)
Dead Presidents (Hughes brothers-1995)
The Mechanic (Michael Winner-1972)
The Big Racket (Enzo Castellari-1976)
The Stone Killer (Michael Winner-1973)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood-1976)
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius-1982)
Flesh and Blood (Paul Verhoeven-1985)
Sin City (Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez-2005)
Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah-1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone-1966)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone-1965)
A Fistfull of Dollars (Sergio Leone-1964)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola-1972)
The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola-1974)
The Hunt for Red Octomber (John McTiernan-1990)
Das boot (Wolfgang Petersen-1981)
Hamburger Hill (John Irvin-1987)
Blood In, Blood Out (Taylor Hackford-1993)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci-1968)
New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles-1991)
Death Wish (Michael Winner-1974)
Death Wish III (Michael Winner-1985)
Death Wish IV:The Crackdown (J.Lee Thompson-1987)
Aliens (James Cameron-1986)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese-2002)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks-1959)
El Dorado (Howard Hawks-1966)
Law 4.000 (John Dalianides-1962)
Batman (Tim Burton-1989)
Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher-1995)
Batman and Robin (Joel Schumacher-1997)
Cobra (George Cosmatos-1986)
Rambo:First Blood II (George Cosmatos-1985)
Hard Boiled (John Woo-1992)
Mad Max (George Miller-1979)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa-1985)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa-1980)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton-1964)
No Mercy (Richard Pearce-1986)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood-1973)
Superman (Richard Donner-1978)
True Grit (Henry Hathaway-1968)
Rooster Cogburn (Stuart Millar-1975)
The Evil That Men Do (J.Lee Thompson-1984)
Star Wars Episode V:The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner-1980)
Star Wars Episode VI:The Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand-1983)